Perhaps I should also include LP’s now that vinyl’s making a comeback.
Also, I know that many of y’all have music stored digitally, so just pretend you don’t and answer anyway, if you please?
For me it’s “Graceland”. The last time I bought that cd was the third time for me, even after trying to rescue the others with all the “fixes”.
SO, let’s make this a “two-parter” while we’re at it, okay?
Is “Graceland”, Simon’s masterpiece or is there another such a great work in him?
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For me, it’s The Refreshments - Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy. It’s something you don’t hear on the radio… maybe Banditos… rarely. So it’s not like I can hear it anyplace else. It was an anomaly, their other release The Bottle and Fresh Horses, I just couldn’t get into. And every single track is absolutely fantastic. All killer, no filler as they used to say.
Second part, haven’t a clue as I am not a Paul Simon fan.
I’m not really sure it is in the spirit of the OP but I have bought 3 times now, the Desperado CD by the Eagles. First was replacing the cassette, the second when the first was stolen from my truck, and the third when I moved and couldn’t find it in my CD collection (I swear the movers nicked it! ;)). I also have it digitally stored.
And yes,* Graceland* is Simon’s masterpiece. 
Bought? With money? After I paid for them, sometimes both the LP and the CD?
Can you tell that I have never been paid for anything I wrote and that my loyalty is with me and not the artists?
Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer.” Between getting bad copies, losing them, and switching to cd, I think I’ve bought five copies of this album. And now I don’t even particularly love it any longer.
The only CDs I’ve bought where I’ve had the music in another format where it was still playable is Pink Floyd (most of their CDs: the Shine On box collection plus PatGoD, Ummagumma, and Obscured by Clouds). I’ve bought several CDs where I lost the tape or it wore out but those don’t count.
The only CD I’ve bought twice in that format is Revolver but that’s cause I lost it.
90125, by Yes.
Bought it on cassette.
Bought it on vinyl, when the cassette wore out.
Bought it on CD when I got a CD player (first purchase with a real paycheck, when I got my first real job).
Bought a new version of the CD, with some extra tracks, a few years back.
I’ve bought They Might Be Giants ’ *Apollo 18 * three times - once on tape, once on CD to replace the tape, and again on CD 'cause I lent it to my cousin and never saw it again. Also bought Bob Marley and the Wailers ’ Legend several times - twice on tape, 3 times on CD (the first got too scratched, the second was lent to either my sisters or one of my stoner friends from college, either way I never got it back, still have the third unless my ex got custody of it) and once in digital form from iTunes - it currently resides on my iPod Nano, as the soundtrack of choice for family barbecues.
I’ve bought Lyle Lovett and His Large Band three times and **Joe Jackson’s Jumping Jive **twice. There’s a musician friend whose first album I’ve bought about five times, three of them as gifts for relatives, but she’s not nationally known.
U2’s ‘Joshua Tree’ has been purchased by me umpteen times, on both cassette and CD.
I can’t think of anything else right now.
The only CD I’ve bought more than once is REM’s Automatic for the People, which I bought twice. The second time was after I thought I’d lost my first copy, only to later find it in the jewel case of a different album.
I take pretty good care of my CDs (keep them in their jewel cases when not in the player), so the only CD I’ve ever had to replace due to it not playing correctly is The Moody Blues’ “Seventh Sojourn.” But there are quite I few I originally owned on cassette (or vinyl) and replaced with a CD.
I’m not sure—on some days, I think “Rhythm of the Saints” may be better.
I’ve bought some recordings two or three times. I bought “Graceland” once on cassette, then I re-bought it on CD. Same with Born In the U.S.A. I’ve also bought several John Mellencamp albums on tape and again on CD. Same with John Fogerty’s “Centerfield.” I think I bought Boston’s first couple of albums on 8 track, then cassette, then finally on CD. Now, I copy my CDs onto my computer and to my iPod on the rare occasion I still buy CDs (mostly if they’re special editions with extra tracks). Increasingly, I’ve been skipping purchasing music on physical media altogether and buying digital copies from Amazon.
And yes, Graceland is Simon’s greatest single work, IMO.
I’ve had all Floyd albums on vinyl and CD (most were put on cassette too). For some reason DSotM needed rebuying several times. Strange that.
The all-time replacement champ isn’t a commercial release – it’s Cornell '77. It’s one of the best Dead shows out there. Go back to when all that was available to trade were cassette tapes, and there’s the lineage of finding better and better quality recordings (Betty board mix, or closer to the master recording) and better quality cassettes.
The show is also one of the best “starter” Dead shows out there. If someone wanted to know what they were all about, giving them a copy of Cornell '77 was about the nicest thing you could do. Maybe open their eyes with Dancing in the Streets, floor them with the second-set Scarlet>Fire, or if there’s time (and there should always be time), start from the beginning and let the music play.
Given the relative freedom to share and the knowledge that it would all come back to you someday meant a fair number were lent/given out and never seen again.
Ah, life before the Internet. A few mouseclicks to paradise.
Enjoy.
I’ve bought all of the Depeche Mode albums (up through 2001’s "Exciter) at least twice - most as cassettes when I was younger, then on CD, and then most recently in remastered CD/DVD editions.
I also bought Goldfrapp’s “Seventh Tree” twice to get both box set editions.
I’ve had Jim Croce’s three albums (You Don’t Mess With Jim,* Life and Times*, and I Got a Name) on 8-track, records and recently purchased them on cd.
I waited 15 years for the buggers to release the original albums on CD. I had almost given up hope, and then, Rhino released all three in 2008.
I realized recently that I’ve bought Cyndi Lauper’s She’s So Unusual several times. I probably have at least two on cassette and two CDs. Mostly I buy them at Goodwill…how can you pass up something so excellent when it costs only fifty cents?
I’ve bought quite a few albums both on LP and CD or download, but none more than twice.
I forgot another CD – the only one that I have bought more than twice – Elvis Costello’s This Years Model. It broke on me twice (i.e. starts skipping on most of the tracks.) It’s the only CD that’s done this to me and while it certainly ranks in my top 10 most played CDs none of the other contenders have been scratched.
HaHa, I came in here to say that for some reason I feel like I’ve purchased Graceland a million times.
Part II, yes Graceland is Simon’s masterpiece. His other good work was with Garfunkel